Thread: LNB strength
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Old 02-12-2008   #1
dardruba
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My System: WinXP/Firefox 85cm Transparent dish and 3 dual LNB's 13,19,28 One diseqc to Sky Star 2, and a diseqc to TM1500. Plus a loop from the TM1500 to a Pace MSS100 analog sat receiver.
LNB strength

When using a dual output lnb does the inner or outer have a stronger signal than the other.

My setup is complicated, 85cm dish with 3 dual output lnb's. The 3 outers go to a diseqc and the 3 inners to another diseqc. One cable goes thru the wall to SkyStar2, the PC and DVB Dream (with Prog DVB as an alternative if needed). The other cable goes round the house to the backroom downstairs, to a TM 1500 and the TV.
I can't see if its the inner or outer which goes thru the wall to the PC but
the TM 1500 with the long cable run shows strength at around 75, the DVB Dream (and Prog DVB) on the short cable run shows Quality around 48 to 50 and Level around 44 to 48. Normally its upstairs live or downstairs live, but today I've run a check with them both live and got the same results.

All this is because on the Pc I constantly get 'Timeout - This PID is empty. Rescan' and doing several rescans a day is sending me bonkers.
I would have expected the lower strength to be on the longer cable run.
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